Ministry of Human Resource Development has taken several steps to improve quality of teachers at all levels of education

Ministry of Human Resource Development has taken several steps to improve quality of

teachers at all levels of education-HRD Minister

New Delhi, 18th July, 2019

The Government is committed to improving the quality of teaching and teachers at all levels of

education. In higher education, the Ministry is implementing a Central Sector Scheme of Pandit

Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) which

aims at building a strong professional cadre of teachers by setting performance standards and

creating top class institutional facilities for innovative teaching and professional development of

teachers. Existing Central, State and Deemed to be Universities/Educational Institutions are

approved as centres under the various components of the scheme and teachers in private

institutions can also participate in various capacity building programmes as well as induction

training. Further, Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT), a major and unique

initiative of online professional development of higher education faculty using the MOOCs

platform SWAYAM is being implemented, for which discipline-specific institutions have been

identified and notified as National Resource Centres (NRCs), which are tasked to prepare online

training material with focus on latest developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends,

pedagogical improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum. In addition,

various schemes, namely, Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Global Initiative for

Academics Network (GIAN), Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP),

are being implemented to improve the quality of teaching in higher education. A number of

initiatives are also undertaken by UGC and AICTE for quality improvement of teaching in higher

and technical education.

With regard to school education, the recruitment and service conditions of teachers are primarily

in the domain of State Governments/UT Administrations. The Central Government through the

Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha provides assistance to

State Governments/UTs for additional teachers to maintain appropriate Pupil Teacher Ratio as per

the requirements of the States/UTs. The steps taken by the Central Government to improve

teachers’ performance include, inter alia, regular in-service teachers’ training, induction training

for newly recruited teachers, academic support for teachers and monitoring teachers’ attendance

through School Management Committees/School Management Development Committees/Block

Resource Centres/Clusters Resource Centres and encouraging States and UTs to use digital

technology like installation of Bio-metric attendance system in schools. The National Council of

Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has developed Performance Indicators for

Elementary Education (PINDICS) to track teacher performance and attendance in Government

schools. PINDICS have been shared with State Governments/UTs to assess teacher’s